QNAP Adds 4-bay Models to the High-performance TVS-x71U Turbo vNAS Series Taipei, Taiwan, June 23, 2015 – QNAP® Systems, Inc. today announced the release of the new 10GbE-ready TVS-471U Turbo vNAS series, including the TVS-471U-RP and TVS-471U. Featuring high performance, scalable design, reliability and rich business applications, the TVS-471U series is designed for SMBs to ensure smooth daily file operations with low total cost of ownership. The exclusive QvPC Technology introduces more hands-on usage for directly accessing stored data, monitoring live surveillance feeds, watching multimedia, and much more with a keyboard, mouse, and HDMI display. By using Qsirch, users can quickly search through all of their files on the QNAP NAS to find specific items with better productivity. The 4-bay rackmount TVS-471U series is powered by Intel® Haswell Pentium® and Core™ i3 processors that are capable of providing over 1,500 MB/s throughput and 128,000 IOPS for CPU-intensive tasks including Virtualization Station, serving large numbers of simultaneous connections, and 4K video playback and transcoding. Its two on-board internal cache ports enables users to install mSATA flash modules to further enhance NAS performance for IOPS-demanding applications. The storage capacity of the TVS-471U series can be scaled up to over 1PB by attaching multiple QNAP RAID expansion enclosures (REXP-1600U-RP and REXP-1200U-RP). “The dual-core TVS-471U series is designed for reliabilit...

AOC and AMD FreeSync™ Make Gaming Monitors Perform Perfectly Smoothly Dynamic refresh rates via AMD FreeSync™ enhance gaming at an affordable price AOC G2460PF Amsterdam – 23 June 2015 – AOC, one of the top global brands in the display market, announces today their first two gaming monitor models supporting AMD FreeSync™ – an all open technology introducing dynamic refresh rates, eliminating image tearing and stuttering, also enabling unhindered fast input. Gamers only need a compatible AMD graphics adapter and driver, plus an AMD FreeSync™ AOC gaming monitor to enjoy the smoothest gaming ever experienced. The all new AOC G2460PF and G2770PF incorporate all these gameplay enhancing features at similar prices as their preceding models. The two new models will become available in September 2015 at an MSRP of £ 229 and £ 279. Superior Smoothness with AOC and AMD FreeSync™ Gaming should be as smooth as possible; this cannot be achieved without a seamless synchronisation of GPU and monitor refresh rates. AMD FreeSync™ finally makes this possible at an affordable price and without sacrificing performance. This technology delivers a gaming experience with zero tearing and stuttering, while maintaining frame rates and input speed at maximum level. AMD FreeSync™ uses the industry standard DisplayPort™ Adaptive-Sync to enable dynamic refresh rates. That means that the GPU is updating the monitor simultaneously when sending a new image to the monitor, lead...